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August 2007

August 20: University-wide Graduate Orientation
August 22: ASE Faculty Retreat (9am-4pm)
August 27: Fall semester classes begin
August 30: Executive Committee meeting (3-5pm)
August 30: ASE Welcome Back Party

September 2007

September 3: Labor Day / University Closed
September 6: Francille Rusan Wilson Talk (3-5pm)
September 19: Viet Le's Oral Qualifying Exam - 3:30pm
September 20: Core Faculty Meeting (3-5pm)

October 2007

October 4 : Executive Committee Meeting (3-5pm)
October 5 : Conference Workshop (12-1pm)
October 8: Hip Hop America (4pm @ Doheny Library Room 233)
October 11-14 : American Studies Association Conference in Philadephia, PA
October 13: ASE USC Reception at ASA (5-7pm) - Room Salon F @Marriott Hotel
October 16: College Major/Minor Fair (10-2pm @Trousdale Pkwy)
October 18: Core Faculty Meeting (3-5pm)
October 18 : CV Workshop -5pm
October 22: Art and War: Alex Donis and Ivonne Coll in Conversation (Performance)
October 24:

Malaleche: Crosses and Crossroads
October 25:

ASE Undergraduate Open House

11:30-1:30pm @ WPH303 -- Free Lunch

October 29:

Conversos, Marranos and Crypto-Latinos
October 31: Laura Fugikawa's Oral Qualifying Exam

November 2007

November 1 : ASE Ph.D. Program Preferental Application Deadline
November 1: Thesis/Dissertation submission deadline
November 1:

Queer Black Marxism: A New Critical Chronotope for Harlem Renaissance Studies
November 6:

Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line
November 8 : Executive Committee Meeting (3-5pm)
November 8: Race, Diversity, and Teaching: A Workshop on Pedagogy and the Profession (5-6:30pm @THH 420)
November 8:

The Idea of Freedom in America, 1776-2007
November 12: The Poverty of the Current Immigration Debate (3-5pm@DML 233)
November 14:

Encountering the Chinese in the West, from the 1870s to the 1970s
November 22-24 : Thanksgiving Recess
November 29:

AMST 700 Dissertation Proposal Presentations - Group I (4:30-6pm)
November 30: History Lessons for the War on Terror (6-8pm)

 

December 2007
December 1: Graduate Admission Application Deadline
December 6: AMST 700 Dissertation Proposal Presentations - Group 2 (4:30-6pm)
December 7 : Fall semester classes end
December 8-11 :

Study days

December 11: Executive Committee Meeting (10-11:30am)
December 11: Core Faculty Meeting (11:30-1pm)
December 11: ASE Holiday Potluck Party (1-3pm)
December 12-19 : Final Examinations
December 15 Deadline for Proposal Submissions for California American Studies Association Conference
December 20-January 13: Winter Recess

 

January 2008

January 14: Spring semester classes begin
January 17: Core Faculty Meeting (3-5pm)
January 21: Martin Luther King Day, universeity holiday
January 31: Executive Committee Meeting (3-5pm)
January 31:

Religion and Integration among New Immigrants to the United States

February 2008

February 13:

Immigrant America: Contexts, Myths, and Paradoxes?
February 14: Executive Committee Meeting (3-5pm)
February 18: President's Day, university holiday
February 20:

From Racial Integration to Community Control: The Black and Puerto Rican Struggle for a Quality Education, New York City, 1960-1968

Talk by Sonia Song-Ha Lee
February 22:

Putting a Stamp on Racism: The Politics of Race and Nation in the Memín Pinguín Polemic

Talk by Kirstie A. Dorr
February 27:

The Immigrant Integration Agenda
February 27:

Songs of Free Men: Paul Robeson's Cultural Activism, 1930-1950’s Talk byShana L. Redmond

February 29:

Black "Surplus" in the Pacific Century: Reading Asian Immigration in late 20th Century African American Cultural Production

Talk by Helen Heran Jun

March 2008

March 6: Core Faculty Meeting (3-5pm)
March 13: Performance by Adelina Anthony, "Mastering Sex and Tortillas"
March 17-22: Spring recess
March 25:

An Evening with Staceyann Chin

April 2008

April 1:

Asian Immigrants and Refugees in the United States: Rethinking the Immigration and Integration Paradigm
April 1: Thesis/Dissertation submission
April 10: Core Faculty Meeting (3-5pm)
April 15: "What Does California Mean?" (7-9pm)
April 17: Senior Honors Thesis Presentations (3-6pm)
April 18: Nomination Deadline for the Ninfa Sanchez Memorial Student Prizes
April 24: Executive Committee Meeting (3-5pm)
April 24: Donald Pease talk -- "The Janus Face of American Exceptionalism"
April 25: Deadline for Proposal Submissions for Imagining America Conference
April 25-27:

California American Studies Association Conference

May 2008

May 2: Spring semester classes end
May 3-6: Study Days
May 5: Core Faculty Meeting (10-2pm)
May 7-14: Final examinations
May 16: Commencement

 

October 2008
October 2-4 Imagining America Conference @USC